Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-04
DON'T LIE.
YESTERDAYS Election Returns Show the
Democrats POlled the Largest Vote.

Aldermen-Tho Republicans Win tn
City Attorney, Police Magistrate
Treasurer and Two Aldermen-Noyel
Cheats Himself Out of His Election.
The annual city election in Butte passed
| of yesterday with it's usual absence OF dis
turbance of any kind. Although the sa
looms were open and access to them unre
| stricted, the number of men showing signs
of liquor was remarkably small. Candi
dates were on the 60 and were bled freely
by their hackers and strikers. There was
was very little crowd round any OF the polls
except in the Fourth Ward, and there the
sidewalk in front of Renshaw Hall was al
most impassable. The day passed quietly
without an incident worthy of mention.
There was a good deal of scratching, princi-
pally on Police Magistrate, City Treasurer
and City Attorney. The Republicans con-
centrated their efforts on the offices of Mar
shall, Police Magistrate and City Treasurer.
and worked like beavers to eject their can
didates.
In the First ward w. r. Kenyon was
ahead of his ticket all day al d at the close
came out nearly 20 votes ahead OF his OPP
ponent. In the Second ward he led him by
40; in the Third by %. and in the Fourth
by 119. He polled more votes than anyone
on either ticket, thus justifying the pro-
phetic utterance OF Mr.. Mantle at the close
of the Republican Convention.
Marshal Jolley beat his opponent by 141
votes, deriving his principal strength in the
Third and Fourth wards, and his total
vote was the third highest of all the candi-
dates.
L.. J. Hamilton ran far ahead of his ticket
and came out second in the race in the
number oil votes cast for him and got a
majority in all the wards, except the Third,
in which Judge Wilcox beat him BY one
vote. Mr.. Hamilton's total majority is
145.
The fight made on Mediation by the Irish
voters was something to be deprecated.
There were malicious charges flung broad
cast of arbitrary rulings and unfairness
shown by him in the Police Court, than
which nothing is easier to make and harder
to refute in it's effect on the less informed
only one ward-the First Ward-Speer car
rying all the others by majorities of 10. 81
and SO.
Doc. Reins beat Cannon, bis opponent. in
the Third and Fourth Wards by 20 major
ity, but was defeated in the First and Sec
ond by a majority of 1872. The canard
started by another paper in this city IN
doubtedly affected bis support among the
labor element. although it was only a skill
full piece of misrepresentation.
MIR. Pinkham was the worst beaten man
upon either ticket, receiving the smallest
vote OF any candidate, 4l6. and beng
beaten by the largest majority. 252, con-
siderably more than half the vote cast for
him. But against such a man as Mr.. Ken
yon, 50 conservative and popular, Mr..
for his ticket, too. stating to a reporter
yesterday that it was the hardest and
meanest days work he had put in for
many a day. The vote polled by Mr..
Pinkham was behind the rest OF his ticket
in every ward.
Mr.. Noyes lost his seat as Alderman in
the First ward by casting his own vote for
his opponent, thereby electing Captain
Lloyd by one vote.
Bateman defeated Fletcher in the Second
Ward for Alderman by a majority OF So.
Tom Lavelle had a majority OF % over
}. Chauvin for Alderman in the Third
Ward.
Hank Walton beat E. w. Wynue by an
even half hundred in the Fourth Ward.
The result gives the Democrats the May
and Marshalsbip and the Aldermen
from the Third and Fourth Wards, which
means a majority in the Council, the hold
over Aldermen standing two Democrats and
two Republicans.
The total vote cast for the Democratic
except for Aldermen was 2,738,
while the entire vote received by the Repub-
lican candidates with the same exception
was 2,679. A greater number Of Demo-
cratic votes were cast for Republican can
didates than there were Republican votes
for Democrats. and party lines we're
ignored in this campaign.